Privacy Policy

Who we are

This is the website of Business 2u Ltd. Company registered in England and Wales. Company number 06848660. Our website address is: https://b2u.co.uk. We can be contacted by telephoning 0333 577 5311 or by using the Contact form on this website.

Business 2u Ltd provides consultancy, information and media services focussing on healthcare. You can read more about what we can do for your organisation here.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

By using the contact forms you agree to share the information within with Business 2u Ltd, its directors, and staff working for the company either as freelancers or through the UK PAYE system. Never include confidential information and submit no identifiable information other than that of your own and any individuals or organisations that agree to it and have knowledge of the information that is being submitted.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to allow the website to function as intended. By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies on your computer. The cookies we use allow this website and links from this website to function a they should, including bringing you the most relevant content, adverts and offers. We do not collect and store personal information such as names and addresses directly on this site unless you intentionally provide these details as part of a comment or voluntary sign up to our email newsletter. If you do not agree top the use of cookies, please leave this website and take any necessary action to delete unwanted cookies from your system. To learn how to remove cookies, please use a search engine to find the necessary information or the Help function within your web browser.

You can opt-out by leaving b2u.co.uk. You can do this by navigating to another website (type the URL in the address bar of your browser) or closing your internet browser.

Cookies are small pieces of software (written computer code) that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit via your web browser. These pieces of software capture data such as the IP address of your computer (the numeric internet protocol address attached to your machine and network). This tracks statistics such as how long you spend on a website and where else you browse. This helps third parties including Google to deliver adverts and content that is most relevant. Cookies can have no expiry, but often have an expiry duration. All major web browsers have the facility to clear cookies from your computer. Please refer to the instructions above or contact us for further information.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We use links to other websites, including eBay. These other websites have their own privacy/cookie policy, which is available on the site that you are referred to. We also monetise using Google Adsense. Google’s privacy policy can be seen here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. This policy contains further information about cookies and your options.

Privacy

We respect your privacy. We do not sell information to other parties and only use cookies as described above to monetise this site and bring you relevant content/advertisements. None of this is intended to hinder you in any way and is solely intended to improve your experience using this website.

You can learn more about cookies here: www.allaboutcookies.org

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use analytics services including Google Search Console to monitor the number of visitors to this website and how the website is used. This is to gage the popularity of the website and to improve the user experience. This information is not shared with any third parties.

Who we share your data with

We do not share information about the use of this website to any other party expect those used in the general analytical data as described above. When you submit information to Business 2u Ltd, we use this in to support any actions agreed, which may include engaging the services of other individuals and organisations, in good faith, to meet agreed outcomes.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data collected by third party analytics services (Google Search Console) is not shared with any party not involved with the promotion and user engagement of this website.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use what we believe to be quality web hosting. The site is secured with SSL. We try all reasonable measures to ensure that any data submitted is not accessed by any unauthorised parties.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If we are aware f any data breaches, we will take all reasonable and necessary action to try to ensure that details are protected. This includes using SSL encryption.

What third parties we receive data from

We use the following: Google Search Console, Namecheap web hosting services, WordPress, The Genesis Framework, various WordPress plugins to ensure that this website works as intended. We do not sell your data, and only use any information given in a manner that we believe is beneficial to both parties. If you think that we hold data about you or your company that you wih tp be deleted, contact us and we will do what we can to remove it.

We aim to please all users of this website. If you have any concerns, please contact us.